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Facebook, Instagram and Messenger down in apparent global outage
Facebook and Instagram have gone down in what appears to be a massive outage of parent company Meta’s platforms. People trying to log onto the websites and apps were finding error messages and were unable to refresh their feeds as normal. Tracking website Downdetector indicated more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook, while there […]
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Facebook, Instagram back up after global outage
Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally. The disruptions started at around 10am ET (1500 GMT), with many users saying on rival social media platform X they had been booted out of […]
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Facebook turns 20: From Mark Zuckerberg’s dormitory to a $1trn company
On 4 February 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launched ‘thefacebook.com’ from his Harvard dormitory. Two decades later, many users struggle to remember a time they weren’t scrolling through its news feed – or that of its social media sibling, Instagram. While allowing us to find long-lost friends and family, and supporting small businesses, its 20-year history has […]
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Former Facebook diversity manager pleads guilty to stealing $4m to fund lifestyle
A former Facebook diversity and inclusion tsar has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $4m (£3.1m) from the tech giant to fund her lavish lifestyle. Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a global diversity executive at Facebook between 2017 and 2021, syphoned off cash through an “elaborate scheme” involving fake suppliers and cash kickbacks, US prosecutors said. The Atlanta […]
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